Nelson69

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by Nelson69 13y ago
I don't know that Android is a long term winning strategy for them but I could see them staying alive. Many people point to hardware features like the keyboard as things they love about Blackberry. The conventional wisdom may be wrong
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by Nelson69 13y ago
I got a chuckle out of that. "Affordable" just means something different to LM. It will only cost 20x the space shuttle.
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by Nelson69 13y ago
There sort of is. We're talking about a meritocracy regarding things that aren't done yet. X.org vs Wayland vs Mir... You tell me which one has better merits; other than X, I've only read blogs and seen some screenshots an
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by Nelson69 13y ago
I've been pondering that too. You know what makes sense to me? MS is only broken according to engineers inside and people in the SV echochamber. They've got piles of cash, they generate piles of cash, they pay a dividend... Ot
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by Nelson69 13y ago
When Gerstner stepped in to IBM, they literally had their fingers in just about everything remotely related to computers and usually there was a product. Not just mainframes.. No joke, there were IBM branded type writers(!), floppy disks,
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by Nelson69 13y ago
Has it not been realized? I think it has, there is a ton of drone stuff going on. The DoD hasn't rewritten the war fighting manual and strategy yet though so manned fighters and bombers are still part of the plans but I don't th
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by Nelson69 13y ago
How good is ARM at running just generic ARM binaries? There are all the custom hardware parts, we can ignore them, but can I build a 32bit ARM binary that will run on a wide range of ARM cores with good/great performance? Historicall
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by Nelson69 13y ago
It's completely dominant in the console market. That is going to change with the new generation though but if you go buy a console today, you're buying and IBM PowerPC.
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by Nelson69 13y ago
A filesystem engineer/professor at a top-tier university told me once (well he told a whole class of us) that hierarchy is the only mechanism that the human brain has for dealing with complexity. A few people balked, they don'
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by Nelson69 13y ago
I did read it, with the dozens of other articles and such it's blurred together. He did rule out the US Government, does that rule out contractors? Does that rule out Verizon? What if Google has data in someone else' datacen
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by Nelson69 13y ago
The thing is, you don't know about the abuse until its too late. Plus he's retired at the time, he'll do some 'consulting' and maybe speak for a lot of money but he'll have his security detail and he's
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by Nelson69 13y ago
What's become very clear is that there is a lot of careful parsing going on. Careful parsing of the constitution, careful parsing of various laws, very very careful interpretation of the words on the page. Does Google give anyone, an
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by Nelson69 13y ago
The clear and obvious question here is if it's "just metadata" and isn't really spying, then why is it secret at all? In fact, why don't we broadcast to the terrorists that we do this and wish them luck attacking us without the aid of el
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by Nelson69 13y ago
I too wanted to dismiss it outright, there are some big differences and the first is that simply not that many people really work on Linux. As I ponder it though, I think it becomes more challenging. Linux' emergence has changed the psych
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by Nelson69 13y ago
How would this 'warning' look? I think labeling 'expert' is almost like an attractant for many of the folks that shouldn't bother. Likewise, there are some good users of OpenSSL, the rumors of it being "bad" or "insecure" would be damagi
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by Nelson69 13y ago
btrfs has the features and it's destined or ordained to be a mainline mainstream Linux filesystem (trust me on this, if you're doing serious work, you want to be on main street) but there are some cases which aren't terribly uncommon wher
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by Nelson69 14y ago
I don't use it every day, but I've paid for it since I first started using it a long time ago... Always want to support cool stuff when I can. Make sure there is an export feature, for some reason, I can't find it, and I'll be a daily user
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by Nelson69 14y ago
Capacity study? Hahaha Like they're going to go to the schools and someone there will "know" how much internet they need. They can't even go to the schools and get a good estimate of how many students they expect to be attending in 10
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by Nelson69 14y ago
Re: 'trying to kill MS..' I've never worked there. I did work at IBM while MS was beating the hell out of OS/2 and Lotus though. During those years, MS did use phrases like "cut off the air supply" and "embrace, extend and extinguish."
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by Nelson69 14y ago
I've seen this on an embedded product that has been sold for years. The license is liberal, it's remarkably easy to work with Lua, is can basically call any of your C functions. Great for debugging stuff, prototyping, certain kinds of m
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by Nelson69 14y ago
So he wasn't taking a moral stand? But he believed he was doing something for the greater good and took some measures (albeit small ones) to avoid being 'caught.' He didn't do it from his "home network" at Harvard. So JSTOR is basically a
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by Nelson69 14y ago
How would you feel if banks paid interest that was proportional to their profits? How would that alter things?
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by Nelson69 14y ago
I've resisted commenting on these threads, we'll all know more in the coming months. I do have a question as we're shifting blame and responsibility. Does anyone know if Aaron ever received treatment for his depression? Did he talk to a
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by Nelson69 14y ago
Safari, Chrome, all the non-Windows phones (iOS, android, bada, blackberry, and webOS) and some lesser uses. I think some of the embedded Netflix implementations use it. It's pretty important.
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by Nelson69 14y ago
Actually, IBM walks a tightrope. They want research to be free to do research and there is a certain amount of freedom you have to give them but they also have quite a record of saying the best research results in products. They also, whe
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by Nelson69 14y ago
This is exactly the problem... Forking is one solution but wikimedia could spin up forks of its own with different standards and pull from the different sources. Ideally, you could make a wikipedia account and maybe configure which subwik
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by Nelson69 14y ago
What's the problem being solved? American democracy isn't efficient, and it seems like it was the design plan. Fundamentally there is a buffer between the electorate and the actual election (it's called the electoral college.) Then funda
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by Nelson69 14y ago
Didn't Netflix issues an apology for their attempted split? Regarding knowing maps wasn't up to snuff... I think people knew but it's a funny thing. I worked on satellite receivers in a different life and TV has become such a ubiquitous a
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by Nelson69 14y ago
Yeah, you think? That was the talk at Defcon, I didn't do enough follow up to find out but it's pretty open that the new Utah data center can store every American's phone calls, emails, .. everything for a century. If you can slip that thr
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by Nelson69 14y ago
If I'm not mistaken, they've sort of tweaked the definition of "interception" too. The game plan is to capture everything and then it's 'intercepted' when they actually listen and analyze it.

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